Danielle Bradley
Danielle Bradley is the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award and a 2025/2026 Tin House Reading Fellow. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, among others. She is the second daughter of a Puerto Rican landscaper and a domestic worker and received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and MFA from the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her first novel is currently a semi-finalist in Simon & Schuster (Avid Reader Press) BOOKS LIKE US First Novel Contest.
49 Venezuelan Novels—Sebastian Castillo’s first book—delivers on its title. These are indeed forty-nine novels, if you can think about novels in an expansive (and thus tiny) way. The work’s epigraph is Jorge Luis Borges: “Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes.”
